"Richard P. Koett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I was under the impression that SYN scans would be faster because they
> don't complete the handshake

That's what I thought too.

> I am just going by what shows in the NessusWX scan status window.
> "ps" doesn't even show nmap running, just multiple instances of nessusd.

OK, then it is the internal plugin.

> You are probably right, it may just be showing the name of the plugin 
> as "tcp connect() scan" even though it's doing a SYN scan.

It *is* doing a TCP connect scan. 
nmap would run a SYN scan. 
There are two different plugin. Just select nmap, it will be quicker.

BTW: http://michel.arboi.free.fr/UKUSA/secu/nessus_slow_scan.html

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